VIDEO: Guess What's Wrong With This War Horse
It's been a long awards season talking about animal performances and the variations therein -- from Uggie's full-blooded canine craftsmanship in The Artist to Andy Serkis's arguably Oscar-worthy performance-capture efforts as Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. And then there's Joey, the eponymous equine stud of War Horse, played by roughly a dozen or more different horses over the course of Steven Spielberg's epic. But there's something strange about the one recently revealed in some War Horse test footage.
You have to go to watch the (currently unembeddable) video over at Facebook. I'll offer little more beyond my recommendation, except to add that Uggie never would have gone for this.
[Chris Clarke via AICN]
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That was unexpected. I did not see that coming!
Fantastic!
I have to admit, I feel really horrible for what I was initially thinking when I saw that handler positioned behind.
Very clever. It fooled me. That's movie magic.
Serkis was oscar-worthy. A performance introducing the future -- with a vengeance -- rather than desperately trying to forestall it.